A cosmic collision between two stars caused a stunning gas rainbow reaction.

Multi-generation living may get even more multi-generational if current demographic trends — like boomers aging — continue.

It's time to prioritize walking over driving. Cities have to change their priorities and start investing in safe transportation alternatives like walking.

We've got about a decade to fix our communities to cope with 70 million aging baby boomers. ​

A Canadian writer living in the U.S. has lived with both. She clears the air about "death panels" and other myths.

Billy Joel said "only the good die young." He was wrong. The poor and the middle class die younger, too.

Three markets were chosen as America's favorites. Was your favorite market at the top?

Planet Green's web video series features 26 tasty organic treats... in alphabetical order.

A webinar with last year’s winners will kick off this year’s contest.

Opening day at the Collingswood Farmers Market in New Jersey is a huge success.

Find out if your favorite farmers market won in American Farmland Trust’s annual contest.

The results are in for American Farmland Trust’s 2011 America’s Favorite Farmers Markets contest. Did your favorite market win?

We've also created a bucket list of farmers markets and a book review of 'Wild,' the book that everyone is talking about — even Oprah.

Gift will help support farmers market and healthy bodega programs; Newark Mayor Cory Booker speaks at the launch event.

Police chief refuses to intervene and offers his support for the rights of breastfeeding mothers.

Learn about the importance of the city that marks a dividing line in the Mississippi River.

The local activist and artist speaks up for the wetlands in his home state.

Video: Alexandra Cousteau revisits the TVA Kingston Coal Ash Spill, which was six times larger than the Gulf oil spill.

Tour an organic farm and learn what makes it certified organic.

Video: Watch Farmer D and friends update a late summer garden for fall.

Learn the keys to making smarter choices at the grocery store.

Watch Part I of Chuck's exclusive interview and take the quiz below to win tickets to the 10,000 Lakes Festival.

Watch part 2 of Chuck's interview with Widespread Panic's John Bell.

Video: Danielle shows you how to celebrate Valentine's Day in an organic way.

These DIY projects will have you see plastic bottles in completely new ways.

Two separate projects funded by the Department of Energy are offering free home chargers. The only drawback? You have to pay for the electric vehicle.

Administration stimulus spending has jump-started an unstoppable EV revolution, says President Obama. Because of the Recovery Act, the cars will plummet in cost

Like nowhere else, early-adopter state California is subsidizing electric cars and the chargers they'll need to plug into. It's one more reason to move to the G

Turbine sites in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey and Virginia identified as prime parcels for projects.

The U.S. energy secretary spent five hours Thursday rejecting accusations that politics influenced a 2009 loan to the California solar company.

Novel generator uses harmless viruses to create an electric charge.

The College's partnership with Decorah, Iowa is featured in this DOE video.

The MIT physicist is already steeped in Beltway politics, but his enthusiasm for nuclear power and natural gas worries some environmental advocates.

Meteorologists predict a mostly normal 2019 hurricane season, but that doesn't mean there's no danger.

Giving human names to hurricanes may seem odd, but it's part of a major shift in our relationship with tropical cyclones over the past 60 years.

6-year-old Jermaine Bell cashes in his Disney World Fund to buy hot dogs and water for hurricane evacuees.

The wild horses of the Outer Banks in North Carolina have been riding out storms for centuries.

When Hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas, this rescuer opened her home to nearly 100 dogs.

Newman’s Own gives all of its profits to charity, like the one that helps Kadin Hoven and his family escape the difficulties of chronic illness.

New findings show manure burns cleaner than traditional fuels, more intense hurricanes are predicted, a housing trend could cut carbon emissions and more.

Oil company provided tapes made by a drug trafficker in case against Ecuadorean peasants.

Vacationers are becoming wary of theme parks as the swine flu outbreak worsens.

The winds and waves of Hurricane Sandy spilled enough sewage to match BP's oil spill more than 50 times over.

A new study suggests there should be official rules on how often doctors clean these essential tools.

Mealworms are able to safely subsist on a diet of polystyrene, researchers have found.

Meanwhile in England, shopping basket theft is on the rise.

The turtle survived, but a video of the ordeal demonstrates why recycling can be a matter of life and death.

Onward Bag is landfill-skirting design at its most ingenious.

Japanese scientists have found a special bacteria, Ideonella sakainesis, that likes to eat polyethylene terephthalate, better known as PET.

Single-stream recycling may be convenient, but it has a few pitfalls. And what consumers don't know can hurt the recycling process.